@article{Oja_2012, place={Tartu, Estonia}, title={Finnic adjectives for ‘tall’}, volume={3}, url={https://ojs.utlib.ee/index.php/jeful/article/view/jeful.2012.3.1.12}, DOI={10.12697/jeful.2012.3.1.12}, abstractNote={<p><span style="left: 213.392px; top: 201.183px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.02072);">In Finnic languages, the height of a tall person is described </span><span style="left: 141.732px; top: 221.183px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.02914);">by the adjectives </span><span style="font-size: 16.6667px;"><em><span style="left: 261.219px; top: 221.183px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.02124);">pitkä</span></em></span><span style="left: 295.14733333333334px; top: 221.18261197916664px; font-size: 16.666666666666664px; font-family: serif;">,</span><em><span style="left: 299.314px; top: 221.183px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.04512);"> korkea</span><span style="left: 350.766px; top: 221.183px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1);">, </span><span style="left: 360.021px; top: 221.183px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.06096);">suuri</span><span style="left: 395.139px; top: 221.18261197916664px; font-size: 16.666666666666664px; font-family: serif;">,</span><span style="left: 399.306px; top: 221.183px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.05899);"> iso</span></em><span style="left: 424.086px; top: 221.183px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.06629);"> and </span><span style="font-size: 16.6667px;"><em><span style="left: 458.626px; top: 221.183px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.00788);">tobie</span></em></span><span style="left: 492.0706666666667px; top: 221.18261197916664px; font-size: 16.666666666666664px; font-family: serif;">, </span><span style="left: 501.326px; top: 221.183px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.04107);">or their dialectal </span><span style="left: 141.732px; top: 241.183px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.959263);">variants. The </span><span style="left: 237.142px; top: 241.183px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.911475);">fi</span><span style="left: 241.974px; top: 241.183px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.945956);">rst three occur through out the whole language group, </span><span style="left: 141.732px; top: 261.183px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.987284);">carrying several meanings and serving to characterize many differ</span><span style="left: 141.732px; top: 281.183px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.02869);">ent objects, but in a general case their meanings do not coincide. The </span><span style="left: 141.732px; top: 301.183px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.00553);">Finnic </span><span style="font-size: 16.6667px;"><em><span style="left: 189.481px; top: 301.183px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.01995);">iso </span></em></span><span style="left: 213.647px; top: 301.183px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.02323);">and the Karelian </span><span style="font-size: 16.6667px;"><em><span style="left: 330.554px; top: 301.183px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.00563);">tobie </span></em></span><span style="left: 368.549px; top: 301.183px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.02478);">are synonyms </span><span style="left: 467.056px; top: 301.183px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.998155);">of the </span><span style="left: 510.197px; top: 301.183px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.00788);">adjective </span><span style="font-size: 16.6667px;"><em><span style="left: 575.026px; top: 301.183px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.06096);">suuri</span></em></span><span style="left: 610.007px; top: 301.183px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1);">. </span><span style="left: 141.732px; top: 321.183px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.0153);">An analysis of their semantic relations and areal distribution has </span><span style="left: 141.732px; top: 341.183px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.02953);">revealed that their areas in the sense of ‘tall’ (of a person) differ con</span><span style="left: 141.732px; top: 361.183px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.960703);">siderably from their general areas. The use of the adjectives </span><span style="font-size: 16.6667px;"><em><span style="left: 567.862px; top: 361.183px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.0265);">korkea </span></em></span><span style="left: 141.732px; top: 381.183px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.02193);">and </span><span style="left: 173.564px; top: 381.183px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.05419);"><em>suuri</em> </span><span style="left: 216.206px; top: 381.183px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.988876);">seems to be in</span><span style="left: 322.869px; top: 381.183px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.911475);">fl</span><span style="left: 327.464px; top: 381.183px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.985749);">uenced by Indo-European contacts. The </span><span style="left: 141.734px; top: 401.183px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.984555);">word </span><span style="font-size: 16.6667px;"><em><span style="left: 181.887px; top: 401.183px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.00563);">tobie </span></em></span><span style="left: 221.582px; top: 401.183px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.953271);">may be a Russian loanword in which a semantic change </span><span style="left: 141.734px; top: 421.183px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.963374);">has taken place. As all of the words mentioned are multifunctional, </span><span style="left: 141.734px; top: 441.183px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.01304);">the simple adjectives are often speci</span><span style="left: 386.201px; top: 441.183px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.911475);">fi</span><span style="left: 390.759px; top: 441.183px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.01686);">ed by being used in a compound </span><span style="left: 141.732px; top: 461.183px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.02844);">construction where the </span><span style="left: 302.022px; top: 461.183px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.911475);">fi</span><span style="left: 306.846px; top: 461.183px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.02881);">nal component has the stem </span><span style="font-size: 16.6667px;"><em><span style="left: 505.804px; top: 461.183px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.01997);">kasvu- </span></em></span><span style="left: 555.562px; top: 461.183px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.973895);">‘stature’. </span><span style="left: 141.732px; top: 481.183px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.03878);">This is especially appropriate in the case of the words meaning ‘big’ </span><span style="left: 141.732px; top: 501.183px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.996356);">and referring to either height or adulthood. Such phrases or com</span><span style="left: 141.732px; top: 521.183px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.951284);">pounds are more frequent in the eastern part of the Finnic area, but </span><span style="left: 141.732px; top: 541.183px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.01435);">they also occur in Estonian dialects. An analogous form of expression </span><span style="left: 141.732px; top: 561.183px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.01229);">is used in Russian.</span></p>}, number={1}, journal={Eesti ja soome-ugri keeleteaduse ajakiri. Journal of Estonian and Finno-Ugric Linguistics}, author={Oja, Vilja}, year={2012}, month={Dec.}, pages={243–258} }